Police Badges

from

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff

Sesquicentennial Badge

1850-2000

Current style Sheriff badge

Worn in the 70's & 80's

Circa, 1960's

Circa, 1950's

Circa, 1940's worn by Deputy Hugo Litke

Circa 1930's-40's worn by Deputy Ed Turnbow

S.L.O.S.O. 1978

S.L.O.S.O. 1985

By: Dennis J. Lovejoy

1960's CalPoly Police

deputized by the Sheriff

Worn by Elsa Maha, 1946

She was Sheriff Hathaway's girlfriend

Circa, 1960

Special Deputy  W. Condict

S.L.O. County Traffic Officer

Pre-CHP (1929)

S.L.O. County Fair Police

1950's

S.L.O. County Fair Police

1960's (defunct agency)

Special Investigator

S.L.O. D.A. Office. 1950's

Investigator

D.A. Office, 1950's

for Glendale P.D. Insignia

I began collecting police badges in 1970 a year after I became a police officer for the City of Glendale, California. The first badge I acquired was from the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department. Soon I had a few badges and it just kept growing. I realized that there were police officers in every corner of the world and soon found myself sending letters to far away places to add police badges to my collection.

I have approximately 600 badges in my collection today  from all over the world.

In 1974, I became a Deputy Sheriff in San Luis Obispo County (CA). There I expanded my collection tremendously. I was able to obtain many badges from this coastal California county.  This page is dedicated to those badges. Incidentally, it was the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's 150th birthday in the year 2000 a.d.  Their sesquicentennial badge is displayed above and to the left.

I have retired from law enforcement [California Alcoholic Beverage Control] but not from collecting police badges!

I still enjoy collecting and am presently working on a collection of police badges from Latin America. 

             

Please feel free to browse my page                        and images. All these badges are in my                 collection. Please sign my  guestbook                   and eMail me with any questions.

This page was last updated on: July 7, 2009

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Ed Berminghan circa, 1930's